IBM ProtecTIER Implementation and Best Practices Guide

Book Description

This IBM® Redbooks® publication provides best practice
guidance for planning, installing, and configuring the IBM System
Storage® TS7600 ProtecTIER® family of products. This
guide provides the current best practices for using ProtecTIER
software version physical general availability (pGA) 3.3 and the
revolutionary and patented IBM HyperFactor® deduplication
engine, along with other data storage efficiency techniques, such
as compression and defragmentation.

The System Storage TS7650G ProtecTIER Deduplication Gateway and
the System Storage TS7620 ProtecTIER Deduplication Appliance
Express are disk-based data storage systems that are configured for
three available interfaces:

The OpenStorage (OST) application programming interface (API)
can be integrated with Symantec NetBackup to provide backup-to-disk
without having to emulate traditional tape libraries.

The File System Interface (FSI) supports Common Internet File
System (CIFS) and Network File System (NFS) as backup
targets.

For your existing ProtecTIER solution, this guide provides
preferred practices and suggestions to boost the performance and
the effectiveness of the data deduplication with regards to your
application platforms for your VTL, OST, and FSI systems.

When you build a ProtecTIER data deduplication environment, this
guide helps your IT architects and solution designers plan for the
best options and scenarios for data deduplication for their
environments. This guide helps you optimize your deduplication
ratio, and at the same time reduce the hardware, power and cooling,
and management costs.

This guide provides expertise that was gained from the IBM
ProtecTIER Field Technical Sales Support (FTSS) group, development,
and quality assurance (QA) teams.